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GUARDIAN ANGEL, My Story, My Britain, charts the journey of a journalist and writer who moved from darling of the left to champion of the moral high ground. This memoir of her personal and professional life
reflects the cultural changes in society over more than three decades.

The book is among the opening titles released by Melanie's new
publishing company, Melanie Phillips Electric Media. It can be purchased
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Free speech dies in Denmark

Another bad blow against freedom in the west. Lars Hedegaard,
President of the Danish Free Press Society and The International Free
Press Society, was yesterday found guilty of hate speech under the
Danish penal code. His crime – as I wrote previously here, here and here
– was to draw attention to child abuse and violence against women in
Muslim culture. The day after the interview, he stressed that his
opinions were about Islam and not intended to refer to all Muslims.

The trial was a show trial in which Hedegaard was unable to mount a
defence, because under the Orwellian rules of the Danish legal system he
was in effect convicted before his trial even took place. In the lower
court, however, he was aquitted – but only on the technicality that he
had not known that these remarks, made in an interview, would be made
public. A higher court, however, has now decided that Hedegaard did know
that his remarks would be made public.And so he has now been convicted
of racism.

This technicality should not obscure the real issue. The Danish court
has convicted Hedegaard of racism for drawing attention to violence in
Muslim families. The message Denmark has thus sent out is that it is
racist and a crime to seek to defend Muslim women and children from the
phenomenon of ‘honour violence’.

Where are the western feminists and defenders of free speech now?

About Melanie

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known
for her controversial column about political and social issues which
currently appears in the Daily Mail. Awarded the Orwell Prize for
journalism in 1996, she is the author of All Must Have Prizes, an
acclaimed study of Britain's educational and moral crisis, which
provoked the fury of educationists and the delight and relief of
parents.